Text Annotations have just been added to InstaCharts!

Read more about how to add a text annotation to your chart here: Text Annotation Docs

Text Annotations have a wide variety of options to customize including: a title, a label, background color, connector type, end type and more.

Customizable text annotation is one of our top requested features - Happy Annotating!

Users can now make Mekko charts!

These are table based charts, sometimes called mosaic or marimekko charts.

Read more about them here: Mekko chart docs

Users can now add a to the bottom left corner of their charts.

You can also add a source to your chart, underneath the caption.

Fill in the field with who you'd like to attribute the source of the data as. Optionally fill in the field to add a hyperlink to the source webpage.

Captions and Sources can be edited from the left Chart Text sidebar.

Users can now customize their pie charts with the following settings:

These settings can be found on the left Chart Options sidebar, under Options for specific chart types (Your chart must be a pie chart to view the options)

Users can now make heatmaps from their data!

Bar charts can now be turned into !

Waterfall charts excel at showing a running total. They're useful for understanding how an initial value is affected by a series of positive and negative values.

Turn a bar chart into a waterfall chart by the new "Waterfall Bars" toggle in the Chart Options panel of the left sidebar.

To show , toggle on "Negative Number Color" on the Size & Style panel on the left sidebar.

Big update! The team has switched to a new charting library which allows for more flexibility and interaction when creating charts. Some of the highlights:

More updates coming soon!

Users can now - when the underlying Google Sheet is updates, InstaCharts will receive the update within a few minutes. Previously, the shortest sync interval was hourly. This update will help keep your charts fresh!

Also updated - accessible from the dashboard. View how many tasks you've used this month under .

Our new integration with Zapier is now in beta!

Check it out here

More importing improvements!

Users can now mark if each sheet in their upload has the header as the first row. The header is used to create column names in the uploaded sheet. If the header is not the first row of data, generic column names will be used (A, B, C).